[rdo-users] openvswitch -> dpdk -> ... dependency

[Alan Pevec]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 2:11 AM Alex Schultz <aschultz at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 5:51 PM iain MacDonnell <rdo-list at dseven.org> wrote:
> > on a bunch of dpdk libraries. After Googling around, I found dpdk in
> > the Extras repo (I have not had to install anything from Extras until
> > now),

Extras is required repo for RDO  (it is enabled by default in CentOS):
https://www.rdoproject.org/documentation/repositories/

> Not exactly related to the request but `yum install libibverbs` will
> stop this stuff from showing up.  it seems to be a missing soft
> dependency that should probably be included in one of the related
> packages.

Correct, we have filed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1658141 and are discussing
with ovs/pdpk maintainers how to proceed.

> > I don't even use openvswitch! I use linuxbridge...
> > Or could the requirement for python2-ovsdbapp be dropped, since it's
> > not actually required for all deployments?

Please file RDO BZ against openstack-neutron and let's see what
maintainers will say.

Cheers,
Alan